GFS2: fix d_splice_alias() misuses
Callers of d_splice_alias(dentry, inode) don't need iput(), neither
on success nor on failure. Either the reference to inode is stored
in a previously negative dentry, or it's dropped. In either case
inode reference the caller used to hold is consumed.
__gfs2_lookup() does iput() in case when d_splice_alias() has failed.
Double iput() if we ever hit that. And gfs2_create_inode() ends up
not only with double iput(), but with link count dropped to zero - on
an inode it has just found in directory.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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